Chapter 25: Swallowing the Divine Servant

  When Tang Hao stopped, he found himself already inside the cave. He couldn't help but check his body, fortunately, he hadn't turned into a pile of fur. After catching his breath, Tang Hao began to explore the cave. The entire cave was filled with dense symbols, as if a special array had been set up, yet it didn't harm him in the slightest. At the same time, he felt that there seemed to be a kind of vibrant energy constantly surging in from outside.

  Tang Hao thought that he had already entered anyway and wouldn't be able to leave without figuring out what was going on, so he loudly shouted: "Who just called me? Is anyone there?"

  But no one answered. Tang Hao had to look around and suddenly found a yellow ancient coffin standing in the center of the cave, also at the center of the symbol.

  Tang Hao felt a chill in his heart. Had he been brought here by the existence inside the coffin? What did it want to do, Tang Hao had no idea.

  Suddenly, the coffin lid creaked open and fell heavily to the ground. A radiant glow emanated from within, making it impossible for Tang Huo to see its appearance clearly. All he could see was that she had a slender figure, wearing a bright yellow palace dress, with golden embroidery on the clothes flashing from time to time.

  Tang Hao thought it was a fairy, but when the halo dissipated, Tang Hao was shocked to see that under the golden sleeve was a pair of hands with visible bones, and his head was only skin wrapped around bones, with sparse hair stuck on top.

  Tang Hao hastily retreated several steps, leaning against the stone wall of the cave. The man saw Tang Hao's reaction, looked at his own withered hands, and then used these skin-covered bony hands to touch his face that was indistinguishable from having skin. He trembled as he picked up a mirror from the coffin, saying somewhat reluctantly: "This life-extending array is still no match for the passage of time."

  Tang Hao felt such great pressure for the first time, not only in terms of cultivation but also mentally. Perhaps this was because he had seen the person with the highest cultivation he had ever met.

  That skeleton saw Tang Hao's fear and let out a sigh, retracting his spiritual pressure. His voice was still gentle and pleasant to listen to as he said, "Do you think I'm scary?"

  Tang Hao nodded, and the skeleton shook his head and said: "Then we can only use illusions." After finishing, a layer of misty light flowed out, and the skeleton turned into a young woman with smooth skin, slender hands, and a face that was not exceptionally beautiful, but those big eyes made people feel unusually lovely.

  Tang Hao finally came back to his senses and asked: "What exactly do you want to do?"

  The woman did not respond, but instead asked eagerly: "Who are you, after all?"

  Tang Hao didn't know the woman's background, he just said: "Tang Wan'er?"

  "Is this really your body?" The woman asked disbelievingly.

  Tang Hao was taken aback. Why did she ask such a question? His secrets couldn't even be seen through by Yun Xi's sister, so how did this woman figure it out.

  Tang Hao pretended to be calm and said: "It's not my body, then whose body is it?"

  The woman smiled and asked, "Do you know your blood type?" Tang Hao was taken aback. He had only been in this body for less than a week and hadn't gone to get his blood tested, so he randomly guessed, "Type B."

  A streak of yellow light flashed by, cutting through Tang Hao's fingers, and a drop of fresh blood seeped out. The woman's finger moved, and the fresh blood actually flew towards her on its own.

  The girl licked her tongue and mysteriously smiled: "Type O."

  Tang Hao no longer concealed it and directly asked: "Who are you after all?"

  The woman sank into thought for a moment, then said: "I don't want to mention the identity I had when I was born. All I know is that my master gave me the name Huàng Xiǎ. Do you admit that this body was stolen by you?"

  Tang Hao nodded and said: "What do you want? Do you want to kill me?"

  Huǒ Xiá shook her head, staring at Táng Huǒ for a while, and sighed: "In the past, I was also so beautiful, Master chose me first. Ten thousand years have passed, and a new generation has replaced the old one."

  Tang Hao didn't know what Huo Xia was talking about and asked: "What does that mean?"

  "I am a Mysterious-level Soul-swallowing Divine Servant!"

  "Swallowing Spirit Servant!" Tang Hao heard this name for the first time, but judging from its literal meaning, it should be a servant of the Sun-Moon Demon Emperor.

  Huang Xia continued: "The Demon Emperor's master had swallowed a fairy with a terrestrial-level spiritual root after gathering the five spiritual roots of Xuan. Our spiritual roots were too low, and we became a burden to the Demon Emperor's master, so he released us from his body and made us his servants."

  Tang Hao was stunned. Since they had been released, these five people should have been mortal enemies with the person who had taken over their lives, so how could they become his servants? Tang Hao asked: "Do you still remember things before being devoured by him?"

  Huǒ Xiá showed a sweet smile, reminiscing: "I remember, that year he picked up a spiritual artifact from who-knows-where, I fell in love with it at first sight and wanted to buy it by force, but the owner wouldn't sell. So I thought of killing him in the wilderness to take the treasure, but not only did I fail to get the treasure, my everything was taken away by the owner."

  Tang Hao inexplicably said: "Then you're still his servant, and you've been one for a million years. Don't you want to take revenge?"

  Huǒ Xiá smiled and said, "I never thought that after being released by my master, I don't know why, but as long as I do something for my master, no matter how small it is, I feel especially happy and satisfied. As soon as I have other thoughts in my heart, I feel like I'd rather die than live. I really enjoy this happiness, it makes me feel like the days before were lived in vain."

  Tang Hao didn't think he still had such a perverted physique, and when he upgraded to the Xuan-level spiritual root, how would those five women be allocated? One helped him massage his feet, one helped him pound his shoulders, one fed him fruit... Thinking of this scene, Tang Hao couldn't help but get excited, but turning back, they originally had their own lives, was he being too selfish?

  Tang Hao made up his mind: as long as the other person didn't provoke him, no matter how beautiful she was, he wouldn't take her body.

  "Are you a Spirit Body? Because I feel an especially strong desire to serve you."

  Tang Hao nodded, but thinking that her true body was a desiccated corpse, he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

  "Huang Xia suddenly looked puzzled and said, 'Why is your spiritual root quality so low? With the accumulation of the Demon Emperor's master, you should at least have a earthly spiritual root by now. Why are you only at the yellow level? What about your origin?'"

  Tang Hao smiled, "Take it and save people?"

  Huang Xia helplessly shook his head and said, "I used this divine array to seal my own lifespan, seize the vitality of the outside world, and barely survive until now, all for the sake of returning my cultivation to you. But unexpectedly, after 10,000 years have passed, my own cultivation has also fallen from the Houtian stage to the Jiedan stage, and I still can't give it to you."

  Tang Hao didn't know what to say and could only ask: "Didn't you ascend to immortality with the Demon Emperor?"

  Huang Xia sighed: "The Master of the Demon Emperor is a figure, we have poor spiritual roots. Even with his help in many spiritual medicines, when he ascends to the Spiritual Realm, we are only in the middle of the Yuan Ying period. The master left and handed over the order of the mortal world to us for maintenance. Later, the five sisters at the ground level flew up to the Spiritual Realm, and although my five sisters had reached the Hua Shen period, they did not have the confidence to fly up successfully. They thought about waiting for their strength to grow a bit more before flying up again. After hearing the news that the Demon Emperor was killed by the Xian Huang, my five sisters were disheartened and could only pin their hopes on the next life. They dismantled the Ling Xian Pavilion established by the master in the mortal world, each finding a place to seal themselves, waiting for the appearance of the master's next life."

  Tang Hao was moved by the loyalty of his divine servant, who had spent 10,000 years guarding his master. Tang Xia sighed and took out a jade slip, saying: "This is the Five Elements Earth Technique from the Xuan-level Five Elements Cultivation Method. You can't cultivate it now, but it will definitely be useful in the future. I cultivated this very method." Tang Xia shook her head helplessly: "I was originally a person who should have died, and I've been barely holding on until now. It's time to let go."

  Tang Hao wanted to say something else, but Huo Xia waved her hand and Tang Hao suddenly felt himself being pulled out of the cave by an invisible force.

  Tang Hao shook his head helplessly, perhaps death was a relief for her. Tang Hao suddenly felt that he couldn't hold it in anymore and quickly lifted up his skirt to squat down.

  But before she could urinate, she suddenly heard Guo Jing's voice: "Wan'er, what are you doing?"

  Tang Hao's face suddenly turned red, and he didn't know how his whole family had run to the back mountain, but he couldn't bear it anymore, and said rudely: "I'm suffocating, don't look!"

  Lin Yunzhi seemed lost in thought, while Guo Lang awkwardly said: "The old ancestor has summoned us, let's go in first."

  Tang Hao saw that the three of them had entered the cave, and he knew why Guo Jing had come to find him more than a decade ago. He didn't know how Guo Jing would look at him if he knew his true identity - as a pervert? A freak?

  Tang Hao gritted his teeth and made up his mind. If Guo Jing dared to call him like that, he would turn Guo Jing into an ugly and fat old woman in the future.